Colloquium "Differences"

The anthropologist Maurice Godelier believes that all societies are organized on a double difference: that of generations and that of sexes. If so, we have questions to ask ourselves about our contemporary Western societies, which treat these two differences in an unprecedented way. Is this why polarizations are accentuating? That political, religious, and other radicalizations are proliferating? That rites of passage from childhood to adulthood have given way to interminable adolescences? That opinion oscillates between populist emotion regarding certain “victims” and total indifference regarding others? Etc. What can we do, at our level, as actors of health, education, security, social cohesion, to prevent these drifts? Failing to have all the answers, we will try to ask the questions properly, and as we have become accustomed to, we will ask them in concentric circles, at the individual, interpersonal, group, and collective levels. We will ask our speakers, Alexandre Dachet, Isabelle Duret, Serge Escots, Olivia Gazalé, Pascale Jamoulle, Myriam Leroy, and Jean-Claude Maes to give pride of place to concrete illustrations, so as to give working tracks to field workers. We will also benefit from a theatrical performance.